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I know it won’t happen but it will be so good if the blues matched the Dekonning offer, and forced Saints to trade for him.
If we match, it's financial mismanagement from the club. Better to let him go and run away with the band 1 compo.
 


Sorry, but assuming the money is at least somewhere close to what is reported (even if it is as low as $1.2m per year) then is this not the worst deal in the history of the sport?

TDK is 26 now and will be 34 when this deal ends. Hasn't made an All-Australian team or even been part of the 40-player squad. I think his best finish in Carlton's BnF was 7th last year. He's also a one-position player on current form - very ordinary as a forward. I guess he could be tried off a wing.

I like TDK - he seems like a great bloke, lots of energy and he has some unique traits. But this feels like a worse version of us signing Zac Williams to 6 years, $6m. It's been nice having Zac Williams on our team, but hasn't moved the needle at all. For this money and this contract, what do you need from him to make it worth it? If not a premiership, is it 3xAA appearances?

If what we're getting in return is pick 9 and more salary cap space than we have had in half a decade, I'm totally ok with him going. I think the best teams have shown that flexibility is key and we finally get that.
 

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You can get end of band 1..
Nope. That's a band 2. And if the AFL tried to give us a band 2 if JSOS leaves for band 1 money, we'd be suing someone's arse off.
 
I’m 100% in on trading Charlie if we can get a break even scenario, naturally prefer to “win” the trade, but if he does not want to he here and we can trade for need and can land elite runners / users I’m all in. If you don’t want to be here, there’s the door mate. Butters would be a dream, a nice little combo of Hayward and Lizard, or Papley + a first and second. They are not giving up one of the big 3, but I think there could be other workable options.
Break even isn't good enough.
 
I honestly wish TDK all the best. Nothing else he could do. I think he can have an amazing career and may even feature in a St Kilda 8-game winning streak DVD Box Set or so, but he will have a good AFL career. Might get some AA jackets. He is good, he will be excellent, and I like him.

Blues need to get busy and parlay this and a checked out Charlie into three first rounders and make something great happen. No more messiahs, only list wealth, standards, depth and drive.

CFC for life. Everything else is temporary.
 

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I might be mistaken but I thought I had read somewhere that if you lose multiple players as FAs in the same period, it is taken in to consideration with the compo...

In the same way that if you lose and acquire a player in the same period, then your compo is diluted or even forgone.

So losing both TDK and JSOS in the same period might mean we receive higher compo for the JSOS loss?

Could have completely made this up, does anyone know?
 
No, you match it and then you make St. Kilda trade for him
If we match the offer, TDK isn't ****ing leaving. He'd take our offer and run with it.

The only reason he's taking this contract from the Aints is because it's life changing money.
 
Of Charlie does get traded it won’t involve year. Player swaps in trades are very rare when it comes to a grade players
 
Absolutely no way I'm trading Curnow unless it's for massive overs I'm talking A grade players and top 10 draft picks for multiple yrs

I reckon you could lever two first rounders in the top 8 or so from someone and the Blues would have to seriously look at it.
 
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